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In this episode we talk to Asim Aslam, who is my favorite kind of CEO, a CEO who codes. In fact, you would be hard-pressed to keep up with his GitHub, which is a sea of green and quite wonderful. Asim is the CEO of M3O.com, which is a startup offering a universal suite of microservices. It offers a full business logic layer for building applications. I am rather fond of this idea, because to my mind, this is the purpose of microservices really, to provide reasonable business logic and make it easy to plug together.

Asim's startup is built on the basis of open-source project, which contains over 100 microservices and which he has maintained over the last couple of years. You can find it at Github.com/micro/services. So jealous - what a wonderful project name to have. Using open source in this way has accelerated the creation of his business.

We also talk about how being a maintainer for an open-source project is a lot like commercial developer relations. You have the same sort of forces and you have to do the same sort of things – it's just that nobody pays you. Without further ado, let's get started and hear from Asim himself.

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